Usually means: Wearing formal or elaborate clothes.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word dress up:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. dress up: Merriam-Webster
  2. dress up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dress up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Dress-Up, Dress-up, dress-up: Wordnik
  5. dress up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dress-up, dress up: Wiktionary
  7. dress-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. dress-up, dress up: Dictionary.com
  9. Dress-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. dress up: Rhymezone
  11. dress up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dress up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. dress up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. dress up: Vocabulary.com
  15. dress up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dress-Up, dress up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dress up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dress up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dress up: Idioms

(Note: See dress_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dress up)

verb:  (intransitive) To put on special or fancy clothes.
verb:  (intransitive, often with 'as') To put on a costume portraying oneself as a particular type of character or well-known person.
verb:  (transitive, often with 'as') To put a costume on (someone) portraying them as a particular type of character or well-known person.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate; to prettify.
verb:  (transitive) To present in a favorable light.

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